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14,505 ft (4,421 m) (Mount Whitney summit) The Great Basin (Spanish: Gran Cuenca) is the largest area of contiguous endorheic watersheds, those with no outlets to the ocean, in North America. It spans nearly all of Nevada, much of Utah, and portions of California, Idaho, Oregon, Wyoming, and Baja California.
Great Basin National Park is a national park of the United States located in White Pine County in east-central Nevada, near the Utah border, established in 1986. The park is most commonly entered by way of Nevada State Route 488, which is connected to U.S. Routes 6 and 50 by Nevada State Route 487 via the small town of Baker, the closest ...
The Great Basin Desert is part of the Great Basin between the Sierra Nevada and the Wasatch Range.The desert is a geographical region that largely overlaps the Great Basin shrub steppe defined by the World Wildlife Fund, and the Central Basin and Range ecoregion defined by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and United States Geological Survey.
The "Great Basin" is a cultural classification of indigenous peoples of the Americas and a cultural region located between the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada, in what is now Nevada, and parts of Oregon, California, Idaho, Wyoming, and Utah. The Great Basin region at the time of European contact was ~400,000 sq mi (1,000,000 km 2). [1]
Great Basin National Park spans 77,000 acres of the much larger Great Basin, which stretches from Utah to California and up to Oregon.. The park boasts one of the highest points in Nevada, Wheeler ...
The Chemehuevi (/ ˌtʃɛmɪˈweɪvi / CHEH-mih-WAY-vee) are an indigenous people of the Great Basin. They are the southernmost branch of Southern Paiute. [3][4][5] Today, Chemehuevi people are enrolled in the following federally recognized tribes: Colorado River Indian Tribes. Chemehuevi Indian Tribe of the Chemehuevi Reservation.
Western Shoshone comprise several Shoshone tribes that are indigenous to the Great Basin and have lands identified in the Treaty of Ruby Valley 1863. They resided in Idaho, Nevada, California, and Utah. The tribes are very closely related culturally to the Paiute, Goshute, Bannock, Ute, and Timbisha tribes. They speak the Western dialect of the ...
Bands of Shoshone people were named for their geographic homelands and for their primary food sources. Kuccuntikka or Kuchun-deka (Guchundeka', Kutsindüka, Buffalo Eaters [2] [14]), living on the eastern edges of the Great Basin along the upper Green River Valley, Big Sandy River and Wind River eastward to the Wind River Basin (Shoshone Basin) of western Wyoming and southwestward to Bear Lake ...